KnowledgeMap Research Page

KnowledgeMap (KM) is a web application developed at Vanderbilt to enhance medical education.  It is based on a rigorous, score-based concept indexer (the KM concept indexer) that identifies UMLS concepts in uploaded full-text documents.  We have built tools to search documents, identify relevant pubmed searches, and identify where certain "metaconcepts" topics are taught.  In addition, the program includes course management and calendaring features, as well as automatic document conversion.

Applications:

	KnowledgeMap web application Contains all medical curriculum documents as a fully searchable, concept-indexed database with course management tools.
	KM Portfolio application page Collects all trainee clinical writeups, indexed by concepts and words, defining mentor-trainee relationships for feedback.
	EBM and Drug Search engine A tool searching several EBM repositories (as collated by Eskind Biomedical Librarians) and several popular drug resources.  Also provides links to KM documents and generates PubMed queries. More info
	Test Interface to KM concept indexer

Publications and Presentations:

Presentations/Demonstrations: KnowledgeMap and Learning Portfolio demo (PowerPoint show). Presented at 2005 Graylyn Medical Education Technology conference. Summarizes briefly the development and usage of KM. KnowledgeMap demo (PowerPoint show). Presented at 2003 Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine meeting. AMIA 2003 Design Presentation (PowerPoint show) A presentation of the ideals behind KM, basic KM architecture, and early study results.

Posters: Can Users Estimate Their Usage of a Web-Based Application? Validating a Self-Report Usage Questionnaire. Proc AMIA Symp 2005. Formative Evaluation to Guide Early Deployment of an Online Content Management Tool for Medical Curriculum.  Proc AMIA Symp 2003. Using Concept Markers to Find Genetics in a Medical School Curriculum. Proc AMIA Symp 2002. A New Tool to Identify Key Biomedical Concepts in Text Documents with Special Application to Curriculum Content.  Proc AMIA Symp 2002.

Journal Articles: Denny JC, Smithers JD, Armstong B, Spickard III AS. "Where Do We Teach What?". Finding Broad Concepts In The Medical School Curriculum J Gen Int Med. 2005 Oct;20(10):943-6. Wehbe FH, Spickard III AS. How Students and Faculty Interact with a Searchable Online Database of the Medical Curriculum Proc AMIA Symp 2005. Denny JC, Spickard III AS, Miller RA, Schildcrout J, Darbar D, Rosenbloom ST, Peterson JF. Identifying UMLS concepts from ECG Impressions using KnowledgeMap Proc AMIA Symp 2005. Denny JC Irani PR, Wehbe FH, Smithers JD, Spickard III AS. The KnowledgeMap Project: Development of a Concept-Based Medical School Curriculum Database.  Proc AMIA Symp 2003. Denny JC, Smithers JD, Miller RA, Spickard III AS. "Understanding" medical school curriculum content using KnowledgeMap. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):351-62.

For further information, please contact Josh Denny.